Population ecology

prefLabel
  • population ecology
definition
  • The study of the interaction of a particular species or genus population with its environment.
inScheme
broader
Abstract from DBPedia
    Population ecology is a sub-field of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment, such as birth and death rates, and by immigration and emigration. The discipline is important in conservation biology, especially in the development of population viability analysis which makes it possible to predict the long-term probability of a species persisting in a given patch of habitat. Although population ecology is a subfield of biology, it provides interesting problems for mathematicians and statisticians who work in population dynamics.

    個体群生態学(こたいぐんせいたいがく、英語:population ecology)とは、個体群を研究対象とする生態学である。 一種類の生物を対象とすることで、種生態学と共通するが、種生態学が広くその種の性質や、分布や行動を研究対象にするのに対して、個体群生態学は特定地域の個体全体を対象に、個体数に絡んだ問題を対象に据える傾向がある。もちろん、両者を厳密に区別することは難しい。日本においては、森下正明と内田俊郎が創始者であるとされている。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Population_ecology)